A biographical account of the late Dr. Henry / [William Charles Henry].

  • Charles Henry
Date:
1837
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    spects both the gifts of the understanding and the virtues of the heart. The gratifying kindness, moreover, with which the society were pleased to invite him to prepare such memorial, encour- ages him to believe, that they will receive it in the same spirit of affection, which they have, in various ways, so strongly manifested towards the memory of their lamented associate and friend. The late Dr. Henry was born in Manchester, on the 12th of December, 1774. His early years were passed amid influences, propitious to the nurture of those tastes, for which he was after- wards distinguished. His father, Mr. Thomas Henry, F.R.S. formerly president of this socie- ty, was a zealous cultivator of chemical science, to which he devoted all the leisure moments of a life actively engaged in medical practice, with a perseverance and success that have been affectionately commemorated by his son.* The earliest impressions of Dr. Henry’s childhood were, therefore, such as to inspire interest and reverence for the pursuits of science; and he is said, when very young, to have sought amuse- * Manchester Memoirs. 2nd. Series, vol. iii.